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Exit Zero

Marie-Helene Bertino

Cover of Exit Zero by Marie-Helene Bertino, published 2025 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 208 pages
Figure 1. Cover of Exit Zero by Marie-Helene Bertino, published 2025 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 208 pages.

there’s a Cheers story in it” set me up to expect lighter stuff but these are pretty damned serious stories. I particularly liked “Exit Zero”, “Can Only Houses Be Haunted”, “The Ecstasy of Sam Malone”, “Flowers and Their Meanings”, and “Viola in Midwinter”, which is nearly half the stuff here.

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newer Version Control by Dexter Clarence Palmer 05 December 2025
this post Exit Zero by Marie-Helene Bertino 19 September 2025
older Strange Monsters of the Recent Past by Howard Waldrop 17 September 2025
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this post Exit Zero by Marie-Helene Bertino 19 September 2025
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